Previous Topics 12/13/2006 JamesDJIII: [DiTV] Is it ok to insert PC family members during town creation?
Or is this something to be negotiated with the players, like, "Pete, you have a brother here, does that sound ok?"
Or do you wait until the players want to…
In lumpley games
Participants: JamesDJIII, demiurgeastaroth, greyorm, ffilz, Warren, David Artman.
11/18/2006 JamesDJIII: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Our first Dogs experience!
While at MACE in High Point, NC, I got a chance to play in a Dogs game run by Jason Morningstar. My friend, Jon, who travelled with me to the…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Meguey, Glendower, lumpley.
11/17/2006 JamesDJIII: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Entering a conflict after it's started
While playing our first game of Dogs last night, a player wanted to know if he could enter a conflict after it's begun.
As an example:
Dog 1 starts a…
In lumpley games
Participants: JamesDJIII, Vaxalon, lumpley, Ludanto, Neil the Wimp.
9/26/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, sixth session
We had another game this last Wednesday on irc.magicstar.net.
Raven, Nathan, and MikeD played. We also had lurkers galore, which surprised me. BTW, that was a good surprise - lurkers,…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Mike Holmes, mutex.
9/16/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, fifth session - we're rockin' now
Played the fith session last night on magicstar.net in #indie-rpgs. You can read the session IRC log at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indie-netgaming and follow the links to the Files section.
I must say,…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, Vaxalon, greyorm.
9/8/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC, fourth session
Last night we played Donjon again, set in the DarkSun setting published in the 1990s for AD&D.
One of the things we all set out to do was to play…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, greyorm, Christopher Weeks.
9/1/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC, third session
If anyone wants to read the logs, you can see them by joining the Indie-NetGaming Yahoo group. I've posted the last 2 session logs there.
The highlights from last night's…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Hedge Knight, greyorm, JamesSterrett.
8/25/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, second session, part 1 [long]
Raven, Nathan, and I kicked up another Donjon session.
We had a couple of "I dunno" moments about dice and victories.
Issue 1: If I have 9 dice, and the…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Miskatonic, Hedge Knight, Christopher Weeks, NytCrawlr, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.
8/18/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC [long]
We've decided to try out Donjon via IRC.
Below is a transcript of the pregame discussions.
It's been edited to remove chit-chat and other unrelated text.
I was hoping that…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Christopher Weeks, greyorm, Miskatonic.
8/17/2005 JamesDJIII: Cartoon Network Cartoon for Sorcerer
Just a quick heads up:
I was watching Cartoon Network with my son today, and we came across a show called (I think) "Life and Times of Juniper Lee."
Within…
In Adept Press
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, dyjoots, Mike Holmes.
8/10/2005 JamesDJIII: Pool Questions - Group Conflict and Resolution
[quote author=Halzebier link=topic=16316.msg173535#msg173535 date=1123581763]
Hi there!
I GMed The Pool for the first time yesterday night. It was all I had hoped for, though I did make some mistakes. Also,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: JamesDJIII.
6/10/2005 JamesDJIII: Wow! Thanks!
I received my lovely Burning Wheel books last week. I was travelling over the weekend so I was able to read them both cover to cover.
They are really the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: JamesDJIII, abzu.
5/2/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] Examples of Play?
Did I read correctly that there are transcripts of online play? If so, where are they?
In CRN Games
Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack.
10/23/2004 JamesDJIII: Not Just an Example of Play
Splitting off from http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13143.
John Kim said:
As far as I can tell, the examples of play I've seen are exactly what they purport to be -- examples in order…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, Rob MacDougall, efindel, Sean, M. J. Young, contracycle, Jack Aidley.
10/19/2004 JamesDJIII: Red-Box D&D Example of Play
I'm speaking about the 1979, or 1980 "red cover" Basic D&D rulebook.
I remember when I convinced my parents to buy it for me when I was about 11 or…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, John Kim, efindel, DannyK, jerry, contracycle, anonymouse, Eric J..
10/6/2004 JamesDJIII: IRC Protocol and online RPGs
I was wondering if any of your have had experience with playing RPGs via IRC (or similar chat mediums)?
Do you know of any Social Contracts that explicitly deal with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, TonyLB, Vaxalon, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Valamir, greyorm, Marco, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, b_bankhead, Green, Noon, GaryTP.
8/17/2004 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer in Raleigh, NC
Hope this is appropriate for this forum. Didn't seem to fit into the general forums, but it's certianly Sorcerer specific.
I'm looking for like-minded players or GMs that are going…
In Adept Press
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.
8/2/2004 JamesDJIII: I Killed the Game?
In reading over http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12207, I remembered some off-hand comments from last Thursday's game night.
One of the people at the table mentioned while looked at a (currently) unused Exalted character…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Kesher, Bankuei, captain_bateson, Noon, xiombarg, Dr. Velocity.
7/12/2004 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight: Once More With Premise
With a great deal of excitement, I managed to wrangle 2 players (Tim and Carl) for a character and pre-game discussion for Sorcerer this Sunday. I invited the players out…
In Adept Press
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Doyce.
7/6/2004 JamesDJIII: Thanks, Forge
Split from http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11810
...was someone somewhere babbling something about the Forge being a bunch of niche navel gazers with no relevance to the hobby at large?
I don't get…
In Site Discussion
Participants: JamesDJIII, Andy Kitkowski, MR. Analytical.
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I'll post the AP for the Dogs game I ran with David Artman and another buddy later. Right now, I have questions!
Situation is that David's dog makes a Raise…
In lumpley games
Participants: JamesDJIII, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, David Artman, dindenver, demiurgeastaroth.
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